Senior Meeting Planner

Job Description
BCD Meetings Events: Senior Meeting Planner
About Us:
At BCD Meetings Events (BCD M E), we provide more than meeting and event planning services: we create connections that inspire, motivate, and change behavior for our customers. As the world's most trusted and innovative meetings and events agency, BCD M E cultivates a culture of people, passion and purpose to drive business forward.
Headquartered in Chicago, with locations in 50+ countries across the world, BCD M E's team of 1,500+ people are committed to sustainability and driving success for our customers, our business, and ourselves.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. Most importantly, we value our people and are committed to your success and continued growth. Learn more about us at bcdme.com/careers.
About the role:
We are looking for a Senior Meeting Planner to join our dynamic team supporting high profile events forApple. In this client facing role, you will act as the event planning lead and project manager. You will collaborate with peers and vendors alike to ensure each event is executed flawlessly from site selection, to registration, to room set and menu planning through onsite execution, budget reconciliation and everything in between. This is a very high touch role which demands precision whilst being comfortable with ambiguity. You keep projects running on time, on budget, and have mastered the art of managing multiple priorities at once. Sound like you? Read on!
Please note that this is an in-office position in Cupertino, CA.
As a Senior Meeting Planner you will:

• Act as the main point of contact for your client, and ensure all milestones are clearly communicated and met. Be consultative in your approach. Afterall, you are an expert in event management.
• Work with your client and peers on procuring an ideal venue for each event.
• Build, monitor and maintain concise and accurate event budgets. Think outside of the box on creative cost savings ideas. Negotiate vendor contracts and build long lasting partnerships.
• Partner with your team mates to create clear simple attendee communications and registration websites. Create a well-timed and accurate communication plan.
• Communicate effectively with all hotel and vendor partners. You'll be responsible for hotel rooms, designing and communicating room sets, AV/Production needs, offsite events, ground transportation, and signage (and more!).
• Ensure everyone, from client to attendee to staff person, has a positive and memorable experience from invitation stage through onsite and departure. We aim to please!
• Coordinate and direct a team of Planners, Attendee Managers and other support staff on our larger and high touch programs.

You're good at:

• Communicating with all levels of an organization. From the first impression on, you have a professional presence, the ability to own the room and convey confidence.
• Project management and solving problems in a fast paced/short lead time environment. You excel at managing multiple priorities at once and being adaptable. You are calm under pressure and work well in a collaborative environment.
• Establishing long lasting, professional relationships with clients, co-workers and vendors alike. Teamwork makes the dream work!
• Very comfortable working with very high touch clients.
• Microsoft suite of applications. You are a natural with Excel.

You might also have:

• A college degree from a 4- year institution.
• The ability to travel regularly.
• Experience of Apple suite of applications and products.
• Cvent and/or Evedpay experience.
• Our ideal candidate possesses 3+ years as a lead Meeting Planner in this industry
• Speaks Spanish.

You should know:

• This role is office based in Cupertino, CA (virtual considered).
• Our standard working hours are 8:30 AM -5:00 PM with an hour break.
• This role will require travel (predominately domestic US) 30 - 40% of the time.

How to apply:
Click 'Apply Now' to be considered.
At BCD Meetings Events we value you, our culture and success is defined by you. We carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors, including your professional background and experience. The salary range for candidates in applicable jurisdictions in the US for the position of Senior Meeting Planner is between $60,000 and $100,000. The actual pay depends on your skills, qualifications, experience, geographical location and project budget
#Li-KW1
#LI-LZ1